SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
The “Cybersecurity Quiz” app, which was developed in cooperation with CSA, OIAT (saferinternet.at) and ovos, was awarded the LernApp certificate. It was one of 25 innovative apps to be awarded the “Learning Apps Certificate of Approval” by the Federal Ministry Republic of… Read More
On March 23, 2022, Tomasz Miksa (FAIR Office Austria / SBA Research) was part of the workshop “FAIR for Sensitive Data”. The goal of the workshop was to inform researchers on technical and legal aspects of working with sensitive data. The participants also learned about the WellFort platform. On the… Read More
On April 21, Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Mag. Dr. Edgar Weippl had his Inaugural lecture at the University of Vienna. (in German) Watch the full video of the Inaugural lecture here on Vimeo (in German) Title: Sicherheit und Datenschutz – Die Eckpfeiler Digitaler Transformation “Spätestens seit der Corona-Krise… Read More
Edgar Weippl co-organized the Dagstuhl seminar Digital Twins for Cyber-Physical Systems Security from April 24 – 29 , 2022, at the distinguished Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. The Dagstuhl Seminar 22171 aimed to provide insights into the opportunities… Read More
A Retrospect. One and a half decades of company history offer a lot of official milestones and not-so-official anecdotes to be picked from. Not an easy, but very fun task which we gladly fulfilled, presenting you in the following with some selected highlights and snippets from the past 15 years. Read More
On November 23, 2021 our key researcher Johanna Ullrich was interviewed for the Radio Ö1 program Journal-Panorama. The topic was “Cybercrime” and the increasing importance of Cyber Security. Here is the link to the article about the program and the record which is online until November 30,… Read More
Edgar Weippl is one of the four organizers of the Dagstuhl seminar 21451: “Managing Industrial Control Systems Security Risks for Cyber Insurance“ that will be held next week, November 7-12, 2021. The aim of this seminar is to develop the basis of a cyber cat… Read More
One of our Key Researchers, Johanna Ullrich, was interviewed for the ORF "Dok1" documentary "Nichts geht mehr: Sieben Tage ohne Strom" about an experience of a one-week-blackout. Read More
After a long pause with just-online-events it was a pleasure to once again organize the (ISC)2 / ISACA Conference on October 5, 2021 as a live event. Hosted in TU Wien´s wonderful TUtheSky Conference Room with a great view over Vienna we had 100 participants, 10 very interesting talks, a… Read More
We are happy to announce that our paper „Better Keep Cash in Your Boots – Hardware Wallets Are the New Single Point of Failure” from Adrian Dabrowski (University of California, Irvine), Katharina Pfeffer (SBA Research), Markus Reichel (Vienna University of Technology), Alexandra Mai (SBA… Read More
Our colleague Nicholas Stifter, researcher and security analyst at SBA Research, presented his conference paper titled Reuse of Public Keys Across UTXO and Account-Based Cryptocurrencies at the Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2026 in St. Kitts, USA. ... ∞
Tanja Sarcevic, Daryna Olyinyk, and Yelyzaveta Klysa, all MLDM research group members, and Sabina Khazari participated in the European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship organized by CISPA, one of Europe’s leading research centers in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Congratulations to them, they won 2nd place and qualified themselves to the grand finale that will be held in St. Ingbert, Germany, in June 2026. ... ∞